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Dossier #144 · GRanD 1752

Barkley Dam

🇺🇸United States · Cumberland River

Built 1966 · Dam · data quality: Good

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Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
48 m
Crest length
3,103 m
Reservoir capacity
2.6 km³
Reservoir area
255.2 km²
Average depth
10.1 m
Catchment
45,566 km²
Avg discharge
713,121 L/s
Elevation
105 masl
Degree of regulation
11.4 %

Notes

Built 1966

Provenance

Record 144 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 37.0187, -88.2187.